Biography
Jack Corrigan was a twenty-year-old New York University student, library clerk and American Students Union member. The Daily Worker of November26,1936 reports that police arrested him at3a.m. the previous day after he raised an Arms for Democratic Spain banner on the Washington Square flagpole. He spent nine hours in jail and was released in his lawyer’s custody pending trial on a city ordinance prohibiting politically advertising banners. The report does not establish his final disposition.
The December 8, 1936 Daily Worker reports that two hundred NYU students rallied the previous day in Washington Square Park in his defense and that Corrigan himself spoke. It announces his case for that morning at Essex Market Court, Second Avenue and Second Street, describing the charge as malicious mischief. This charge wording supplements the earlier ordinance report; the announced hearing does not establish its outcome. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n294-XX-dec-08-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=1
